technic

American  

[tek-nik, tek-neek] / ˈtɛk nɪk, tɛkˈnik /

noun

1. technique.

2. a technicality.

3. (used with a singular or plural verb) technics, the study or science of an art or of arts in general, especially the mechanical or industrial arts.

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adjective

1. technical.

technic British  

noun

1. another word for technique

2. another word for technics

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Etymology

Origin of technic

1605–15; (noun) earlier technica < Greek techniká, neuter plural of technikós of art and craft, equivalent to téchn ( ē ) art, craft + -ikos -ic; (adj.) < Greek technikós

Example Sentences

Indeed the number of casualties by traffic accidents may decrease if the technic and the road system for driverless cars are established.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2017

I employed the technic of taking short walking, working breaks every couple of hrs.. at work for 40 yrs. in lieu of talking work on the phone.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2016

Clapping his hands, Mr. Lasky told Director William K. Howard to shoot it exactly as written, and forthwith broadcast a huge publicity about a revolutionary cinema technic called "narratage."

From Time Magazine Archive

No one, according to some, had ever played Bach like Gieseking, and they rhapsodized over an amazing technic, a style that was as fluent and easy as it was immaculate.

From Time Magazine Archive

At first his playing was the purest pantheism—a transfigured materialism, tone, and technic raised to heights undreamed of.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James

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